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Spiral and Star
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A galaxy spiral and a star
shining in image together are
seemingly to one another near
except the galaxy’s far in rear.
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They even appear to overlap
albeit not through welkin mishap
but rather due to discernment’s guiles
which ever employ celestial wiles.
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Perception’s deception once again
our senses trick as to where and when.
While both in the grouping Virgo dwell
their distance apart is quite a spell.
j.
Forty-five million light-years from Earth,
the azure globe of unfathomed worth
where humankind finds our breath and life,
lies galaxy with its stellars rife,
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while amidst diffraction spikes the star
is in Milky Way where earthlings are
seven thousand one hundred nine light-
years far, which due to the Hubble’s sight
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we see through camera data chart,
from two taken twenty years apart
in testament to the Hubble’s long-
lasting duration still going strong.
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Then too what we look at says a lot
about who we are and what we’re not.
So much has to do with point of view
in what sort of fate we may accrue.
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Awesome indeed is our indigo
planet in space, the lodging we know.
The challenge is still to gaze above
while keeping feet on the ground with love.
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~ Harley White
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A source was the following…
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Hubble Sees a Spiral and a Star…
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-sees-a-spiral-and-a-star/
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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the face-on spiral galaxy NGC 4900.
ESA/Hubble & NASA, S. J. Smartt, C. Kilpatrick
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